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Yesterday's Twitter Tweets

Submitted by steev on 18. December 2009 - 23:50.

11:32 reading interview with editor of Feministing www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/magazine/15fob-q4-t.html?_r=1 #
11:49 reading awesome article about masculinity and "lad culture" icio.us/hf4mcq #
14:21 reading facebook's best spin on their diversity data. still pretty damn white, FB. icio.us/tn5zto #
14:36 paying off the last of my student loans. yay. go to hell, Citibank. #
14:58 icio.us/u255af #
22:45 trying to figure out how to get to Pima County Motorsports Park, for this shoot I'm working on tomorrow for MTV. #

Yesterday's Twitter Tweets

Submitted by steev on 18. December 2009 - 0:07.

10:20 reading about Drupal 6 theme development with the puppy in my lap. #
11:16 thinking this slogan is awesome: "System Change not climate change" www.indymedia.org/en/2009/12/932387.shtml #
11:35 icio.us/malc4q #
15:05 reading lastest newsletter email from Participant Films. Wow they are a truly inspiring production company. #
17:29 still thinking abt the hacked dronefeeds. tinyurl.com/ylez9ns reminds me of awsm webcomic called Spiders: tinyurl.com/yh7ltmh #

Yesterday's Twitter Tweets

Submitted by steev on 17. December 2009 - 10:30.

12:01 doing annoying paperwork. i wish i could get paid for all the paperwork i've every filled out neccessary to start work for someone. #
13:03 unfollowing someone for banality. #
14:32 on a conference call.. #
16:41 drinking a latte i just made, but kind of wanting a glass of wine instead. oh boy now look who's being banal. sigh. #
16:45 looking at sad but beautiful pics of a ghostbike in brooklyn. tinyurl.com/y949mzj - thinking of the many here in tucson. via @rxanna #
18:19 getting ready to go to "Gathering of the Greens" annual tucson enviro holiday party... #
21:01 realizing OMG, i have 68 photos/videos on my camera and all of them are either of a puppy, a baby, or both. #

Humanitarian Litterer in the Desert

Submitted by steev on 9. December 2009 - 11:40.

The other day I went to a rally and press conference put on by No More Deaths to support our friend Walt. Walt is actually one of the first people I met when I first visited Tucson, wondering if I should move there. He's a seminary student in L.A. now, but he's still dealing with a federal littering charge from earlier this year when he was leaving water jugs in the desert for migrants. This is a little video documenting the event.

It's also a test of editing footage shot on my new tiny little still camera, a Canon SD780. The sound isn't that great, especially with the traffic on the street nearby, but I was so impressed with the 1280x720 resolution that I decided to see what I could do. I edited it Apple ProRes and chopped down to regular DV, enabling me to cut in a way that wasn't too jarring by changing scale. It's rough, I only spent a couple barely-spare hours on it, but it turned out alright, I think.

(I fucking hate that I'm forced to use YouTube in this case but I can't get this Drupal module to recognize a blip.tv link so I'm stuck right now. I don't have time to mess with it. I hate computers and I hate YouTube.)

Quiet Happy 10th to Indymedia

Submitted by steev on 6. December 2009 - 10:12.

This past week roughly (depending on how you count it) marked the 10 years since the start of the Independent Media Center, as part of the seemingly sudden outpouring of anti-capitalist, anti-corporate, anti-globalization activism that erupted in Seattle during the WTO ministerial there. The IMC was really a part of that "movement of movements": there, a small group of media activists put into first serious use a new web platform called "Active" in November 1999 that allowed anyone to report on what was going on in the streets of Seatle and otherwise. The idea and the tools and the energy spread like wildfire and in a few years there were about 200 local IMC collectives and sites around the world. Read more>>>